Tuesday's Documentary - Season 9 Episode 9 Why Was Cairo Calm?
Cairo is calm today, surprisingly, extraordinarily calm' (WALTER CRONKITE , CBS News, 7 October 1981) Never has a Third World leader been as widely honoured in the West as was President Sadat. His funeral was attended by royalty, presidents, and prime ministers from all over the world. Yet, strangely, Egyptians themselves stayed away; they were - as Western journalists observed - extraordinarily calm, even apathetic. Why? Had Sadat, by moving on to the sophisticated stage of world statesmanship, lost touch with the simple hopes of his own people? Had he been seduced from the harsh realities of Egyptian poverty by the adulation accorded him by Western media? Had he forgotten his own hopes and promises of only a few years earlier? Had he become an almost inevitable target ... ?
First Air Date: Sep 10, 1968
Last Air date: Jul 26, 1983
Season: 10 Season
Episode: 258 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
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Language: English
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